Re: Good Bye FC5
Johnny wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:20:44AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> I upgraded to FC5 because it was claimed that it is
>> better. But some of my best "legacy" software in X-windows looks
>> diffirent and does not work well.
>>
> Without mentioning any details (what software? what problems?),
> no-one can/will fix it.
>
I can't speak for Karl, but I've also noticed quite a few regressions
in FC5. In the past I've always thought that on balance, each release
of Fedora was better than the last, even if there are a few changes
that I wasn't fond of. FC5 is different.
- Lack of an "install everything" option requires maintaining a
list of all the stuff that has to be installed after completing
the initial installation, so that if I want to do another
install, or an install of FC6 I'll be able do do so quickly.
- The xorg radeon driver no longer works with two display heads.
Resolving this requires installing the evil kernel-tainting
proprietary ATI driver.
- The epiphany web broser requires dbus, and so is no longer a
network app, but one that can only be run from the local
console.
- The pwc (Phillips Web Camera) driver loads, but the output of
the Logitec web camera can't be displayed in either TVtime or
xawtv.
- gnome-screensaver is lame (too few hacks, unconfigurable) and
buggy (locks the screen at inappropriate times).
- The nautilus button-3 menu doesn't offer a terminal. The
nautilus-open-terminal package adds one, but it's in the middle
of the menu where it's less convenient, and it always opens the
terminal on display :0.0, even when used from another display.
I solved that by accident Johnny, I slid the application control
from the list to the top where it's always available. Took a minute.
But I agree with all else including my problems with FC5....